Scope and Contents Recording of television news bulletin on subjects including: the Government’s white paper on broadcasting; financial help for pensioners in need; a strike over the ban on trades union membership at GCHQ; the United States election; the stuation in the Soviet Union; the CBI [Confederation of British Industry] conference. Also includes a [BBC Panorama] television interview with Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on subjects including: financial help for pensioners and other...

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Subjects include: the regulation of public utilities; the Queen’s Speech debate, on social security and welfare; procedures for the 1989 Conference.

Scope and Contents File kept by Neil Stewart [Political and Campaigns Secretary], including: target list for 1991 local elections; notes of problem areas in the party; notes for general planning meetings, Campaign Strategy Committee meetings and election planning meetings; planning timetables, 1989-91; notes by contributors including Jack Cunningham [Campaigns Co-ordinator], Peter Mandelson, Director of Campaigns and Communications and Colin Byrne [Chief Press and Broadcasting Officer], on specific campaigns...

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Includes briefing notes for MT from her office staff, most regularly Richard Ryder (her Political Secretary), Adam Butler MP and John Stanley MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretaries); reports and minutes of policy groups and other committees set up under the control of Sir Keith Joseph MP; minutes and circulated papers of the Leader's Consultative Committee (Shadow Cabinet); and regular briefings from the Conservative Research Department on aspects of policy

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Includes briefing notes for MT from her office staff, most regularly Richard Ryder (her Political Secretary), Adam Butler MP and John Stanley MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretaries); reports and minutes of policy groups and other committees set up under the control of Sir Keith Joseph MP; minutes and circulated papers of the Leader's Consultative Committee (Shadow Cabinet); and regular briefings from the Conservative Research Department on aspects of policy

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the number of Labour peers in the House of Lords; South Africa; spending on the National Health Service; supplementary benefits; the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union; nuclear testing and arms control; pensions; the possible purchase of British Leyland by the trades unions; the funding of Sadler’s Wells theatre; crime prevention; the Westland affair [share dealing irregularities involving Westland Helicopter Company]. Other correspondents include Nigel...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: cold weather payments to the elderly; spending on the National Health Service; the Westland affair [share dealing irregularities involving Westland Helicopter Company]; Lord Young’s appointment as Conservative Party Chairman; sanctions against South Africa; funding of scientific research; a proposed constitutional conference on South Africa; hopes for the release of Terry Waite from the Lebanon. Other correspondents include Mark Addison and Charles Powell, Private...

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Programme and briefings for NK’s visit to Newport Department of Health and Social Security office, Gwent [Wales], particularly on the Social Fund and on a petition from local ambulance staff against the closure of their station.

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Letter to AFB from Michael Meacher on proposed amendments to the Family Income Supplement Bill.

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Subjects include WSC at the Board of Trade and Home Office, Labour Exchanges and the Transvaal [South Africa] constitution.

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Transcripts of and briefings for interviews with NK on the BBC Panorama programme, on subjects including: the Welfare State; the miners’ strike; defence; the Social Democrat/Liberal Alliance; relations between NK and Roy Hattersley, Deputy Leader.

Scope and Contents Part 1, 1979: includes copies of notes from Patrick Jenkin MP (Secretary of State for Social Services) for Sir Geoffrey Howe MP (Chancellor), "Assistance with fuel costs: the contingency reserve", 7 June 1979, and for Sir Keith Joseph MP (Secretary of State for Industry), "Party Conference- motion on social security", 5 October 1979 Part 2, 1980: includes note from Norman Fowler MP (later Secretary of State for Social Services) on Employers' Statutory Sick Pay, ca....

Scope and Contents Includes notes of Social Services Policy Group meetings, 23 June 1975 & 2 July 1975; notes of Personal Social Services Policy Group meeting, 14 July 1976 (MT did not attend above meetings); and papers relating to mobility allowance and invalid vehicles, April 1976. Also includes briefing notes from Patrick Jenkin MP for MT's meeting with BUPA, 3 May 1977; and briefing notes from Charles Bellairs (Conservative Research Department) and Arnold Elton (Conservative Medical...

Scope and Contents Includes MT's handwritten annotations Also includes notes of a meeting by George Cardona (Conservative Research Department) relating to social security issues (MT did not attend), 27 September 1976; a paper by Adam Ridley (CRD), "The economic education of the public, proposals, for ‘concerted action’ and fighting inflation", 16 May 1977 (annotated by MT); minutes of a meeting by Rob Shepherd (CRD) to discuss pay issues (attended by MT), 15 February 1978; minutes of a meeting by...

Scope and Contents Reports by members of the Shadow Cabinet on policy proposals and their projected costs, including: Denzil Davies on defence; [Giles Radice] on education; Stan Orme on energy; John Prescott on employment; Michael Meacher on social security; [George Foulkes] on foreign affairs; Roy Hattersley on home affairs; Robert Hughes on transport; John Smith on trade and industry; Donald Dewar on Scotland; Barry Jones on Wales; Peter Archer on Northern Ireland; Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting...

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Minutes, submissions and papers from group meetings, on subjects including: income tax; National Insurance and income support; housing finance; child care; social insurance; income inequality and poverty. Also includes: the report of the pensions working party; papers on phase 2; draft of the group’s statement to Conference; draft introduction to the group’s report.

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Subjects include: pensioners; winter fuel payments to the elderly; policies for the disabled; benefits for families, women and young people.

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Includes NK’s speech to the Royal College of Nursing, Apr 85, and to the Welsh Labour Party conference, May 85. Other subjects include: health care and welfare services; social security reforms; the Social Democrats.

Scope and Contents Includes NK’s speech to the Plymouth rally [Devon] and his speech to the Parliamentary Party and Party staff on Labour’s position midway between General Elections and the development of campaigning, July 85. Other subjects include: industrial strategy in London; the treatment of Scottish miners following the miners’ strike; results from the United Nations Decade for Women; the teaching of science; the Government’s review of social security and pensions; the National Health Service; nuclear...